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1 " In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America, and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down today. Just as we have progressed beyond the blatantly racist ethic of the era of slavery and colonialism, so we must now progress beyond the speciesist ethic of the era of factory farming, of the use of animals as mere research tools, of whaling, seal hunting, kangaroo slaughter, and the destruction of wilderness. We must take the final step in expanding the circle of ethics. - "
― Peter Singer
2 " Life at home is at a pace which allows you to appreciate what it has to offer. Simultaneously you get a chance to reflect on what you wish from it. Our development also goes at the same pace, which is not something that everyone appreciates. "
― Gloria D. Gonsalves , I Am Tausi
3 " When our time is up we can only take with us what we have learned and experienced in our development in creating for ourselves and others." By helping others we help ourselves "
4 " We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden. "
― Jostein Gaarder , Sophie's World
5 " ... he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years. "
― Christopher Isherwood , Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
6 " It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own. "
― Rainer Maria Rilke , Letters to a Young Poet
7 " We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration. "
